Strategic Finance Analyst, Google Customer Solutions, Ads

Google • Mountain View, CA

1d • $113,000 - $162,000

About The Position

Financial Analysts ensure that Google makes sound financial decisions. As a Financial Analyst, your work, whether it's modeling business scenarios or tracking performance metrics, is used by our leaders to make strategic company decisions. Working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to take on big picture challenges. As someone who knows the workings of the core Finance team inside and out, you'll lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes. You'll provide senior level management with insightful recommendations, planning and reporting support. The name Google came from "googol," a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. And nobody at Google loves big numbers like the Finance team when providing in depth analysis on all manner of strategic decisions across Google products. From developing forward-thinking analysis to generating management reports to scaling our automated financial processes, the Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the business.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.

Nice To Haves

• Experience using SQL to extract and manipulate data and building reporting dashboards, with proficiency in programming languages such as Python.
• Understanding trends, developing insights, and turning them into high-impact strategies, supported by advanced financial modeling skills.
• Ability to apply impeccable business judgment, motivate colleagues, and collaborate effectively to help influence executive leadership.
• Excellent communication and partnership skills with the ability to interact with executive leaders in Sales and Strategy and Operations teams periodically.
• Excellent quantitative, written, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the partnership with Sales for the Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMB) Growth team to provide executives with clear insights into drivers of business growth, business analytics, risks, and opportunities.
• Provide decision support for operational decisions and macro level project decisions through financial analysis, including opportunities, headroom insights, pipeline and productivity analysis.
• Engage cross-functional and finance teams to drive scalable analyses, tools and insights, including key work streams like quarterly goals and annual planning.
• Provide support for decision making on investment strategies for incentives, products, identification of key market drivers for business generation and business profitability, and resource allocation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees